on 2nd rewatch, has your opinion changed...who won the fight and how do you score it... is it the same score as your initial scoring?
Just finished my rewatch. I had the first watch 115-112 I think. Somehow I now have it 117-110! I have rounds 7 and 12 close though. I think the difference was I gave Fury round 3 when I watched live, but to Usyk with the benefit of DAZN's 15 second rewind button, and I think I gave Usyk round 7 this time. One thing that struck me, was watching live I thought Usyk was in real bother in rounds 4-6. Now, though Fury clearly won those rounds, I think Usyk wasn't in as much trouble as I thought. Fury was great at finding a home for the body shots, but Usyk took it more or less in his stride. Round seven was a close round. I think that was when I temporarily lost my stream first time round, and I guess I saw more of Fury's work then. Could still be scored either way. 117-110 Usyk
In my opinion 115-112 is the bare minimum of the margin of victory for Usyk. I can't possibly see any less and as others have said 117-110 is a very plausible score card.
I think one thing that stands out is Usyk's "ring generalship", the forgotten scoring criterion. 90% of the fight took place where he wanted it to. While I do see Fury's thinking, to an extent, in giving up the middle of the ring, I don't think it worked very well for him. Letting a man half a foot shorter than him stalk him for the whole fight wasn't a good look, and allowed Usyk to decide how the action happened. It did come off for Fury at times, as he's a very good boxer who showed some excellent shot selection. But he couldn't really have played into Usyk's hands any more. In a rematch I'd hope Fury took the initiative a bit more, and imposed his formidable size and length on the Ukrainian. But then Usyk showed on Saturday that he has more than adequate power at heavyweight, and Fury has never had the most solid of chins. I suppose Fury, still wily as he ever was, felt most comfortable taking a defensive, reactive position against someone he knew could outland him in exchanges.
